My Soul is Knowing It

My friend Stacey and I recently together went on an outing to Oak Glen and Live Oak Canyon to photograph fall scenery.  At the end of our day, we decided we would each look over our pictures and find the most meaningful one and tell each other what message in that photo God may have for us or what He was stirring in us.  I loved all Stacey's shots and thought mine didn't turn out so well, but when I got to this one, it spoke to me.

The flower looks as if it is peeking out from behind a leaf behind which it had previously been hiding shyly.    It's a sunflower, but not yellow like most sunflowers, and it is done being ashamed about its uniqueness and, in fact, even beginning to embrace who its Creator made it to be.  The flower seemed to be saying, even singing, "It's good to be me!"  Without further explanation, here it is!  And I'm making bookmarks out of the pictures, writing the verse below on the backs of them and giving them to a group of people who really helped create a sacred and safe place this year for me to blossom.

 "Wonderful are your works!  

My soul knows it very well."

Psalm 139:14b

The View From Here

The path is narrow

But the view is broad

Everywhere I look

I see God.

diane mann 2010